From the Sun

Steven T. Suess is a physicists with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and sn adjunct professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has studied the Sun and its influence on the solar system for almost his entire career.Bruce T. Tsurutani is a space plasma physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. His research covers studies of the Sun, interplanetary spacem and planetary magnetospheres, including plasma instabilities, wave-particle interactions, nonlinear waves, and aurora.

• PrefaceSteven T. Suess and Bruce T. Tsurutani  vAuroraSyun-Ichi Akasofu 1The Earth's MagnetosphereS. W. H. Cowley  13Radiation BeltsJames A. Van Allen  23Plasma Waves and InstabilitiesS. Peter Gary  29The Ionosphere and Upper AtmosphereA. D. Richmond  35Red Sprites and Blue Jets: Transient Electrical Effects of Thunderstorms on the Middle and Upper AtmospheresD. D. Sentman and E. M. Wescott  45Magnetic StormsBruce T. Tsurutani and Walter D. Gonzalez  57The Human Impact of Solar Flares and Magnetic StormsJo Ann Joselyn 67The Solar WindB. E. Goldstein  73Solar FlaresDavid Rust  81Solar Flare ParticlesR. P. Lin  91Solar Irradiance Variations and ClimatePeter Foukal  103The Solar DynamoDavid H. Hathaway 113Cosmic RaysJ. R. Jokipii  123Anomalous Cosmic Rays: Interstellar Interlopers in the Heliosphere and MagnetosphereR. A. Mewaldt, A. C. Cummings, and E . C. Stone 133The Outer HeliosphereW. I. Axford and Steven T. Suess 143Glossary  153